rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

They seem to keep mind of it when it's high-profile enough - there's talk now I understand as to whether the new manager can keep John Terry and Rio Ferdinand in the same team after Terry yelled racist abuse at Ferdinand's younger brother last year.

yeah well his trial will bring out the usual platitudes, but even if he is convicted the discourse will be about one remedial bawheid who will then get to have racist appended to his list of character defects

that is more or less how ~race~ discourse exists in england, racism is the preserve of racists, that is to say those who are or might be convicted of racially aggravated offences, rather than say the employers whose hiring decisions contribute to the ~50% unemployment rate among young black men

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-most-persuasive-case-for-eliminating-black-studies-just-read-the-dissertations/46346

fuck, who is this person?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/author/nriley

I am picking on people because they are black (and I am a racist).
I am picking on people even though I don’t have a Ph.D.
I am picking on people who are too young and inexperienced to defend themselves.
I am picking on people even though I haven’t read their entire dissertations.

Let me take the first two criticisms first. My qualifications to post on this blog consist of the fact that I have been a journalist writing about higher education…

Would have been funny if the post ended on the ellipsis.

This seems a relic of first term Bush for sure.

srsly *what* is this person?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/black-studies-part-2-a-response-to-critics/46401

aaron bady comments on this one

her defence notes that there aren't enough hours in the day to read the things she is demeaning and dismissing

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-end-of-black-caddies-and-the-medias-racial-headcounting/45326

http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/priorities-at-the-naacp/38010

She actually had the nerve to write this:

"Before the NAACP leadership gets on its high horse about this, maybe they should go ask a mother trying to raise kids in an inner-city neighborhood how she feels about this, whether she minds if the guy trying to sell drugs to her 12-year-old is put away for a long time."

!!!

"Hey, NAACP. Maybe you ought to talk to some real BLACK PEOPLE and see what THEY think."

fucking morons and their "brainstorms"

so does freddie de boer! its the grad students blogger all stars in those comments! xxxxp

Drug-legalization proponents across the political spectrum often claim that there would be less violence if drugs were not part of a black market. But I can’t help but wonder whether people inclined to try to make money on the black market wouldn’t simply turn to other kinds of merchandise. Gun-running seems profitable, for instance.

brainstorm!

if drugs were legalized, all drug dealers would turn into gun runners, and there would be a guy selling baggies of automatic weapons on the corner of every street

#raceideas

Oh god I just handed her a half-dozen page hits.

From the original Times article she is commenting on:

“A guy can make six figures a year on a decent bag now, but the players want to have family members, people that are close to them and who they can relate to on their bags,” said Carl Jackson, one of the few remaining black caddies who will work Augusta this week.

The black caddies who remain are on the Nationwide Tour, golf’s version of Class AAA, he added.

“Or they don’t get a job at all,” he said. “They’re a dying breed.”

Their demise can be traced to other things as well — the ubiquity of the motorized golf cart and the subsequent slashing of caddie training programs, as well as this: the job is not as attractive to blacks who have more career opportunities than previous generations. For the older black caddies, the situation is not without its bitter irony: when the prize money was modest, they were the standard; when the money became huge, they became disposable.

From her post:

In other words, discrimination is not at the root of every disparity. And the end of discrimination may even cause greater disparities.

brainstorm!

what the FUCK

her posts have in common a remarkable ability to synthesize information and then completely ignore it

omg why have you told me about this horrible person, ilx?

^^^ OTM

Here's a story one of my pubs did on Carl Jackson last year.

If anyone wants to cleanse their palette a little.

her posts have in common a remarkable ability to synthesize information and then completely ignore it

― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Friday, May 4, 2012 9:41 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is what is most striking about her writing. The counter-argument is actually imbedded in her own text, yet somehow she is completely unable to see how it undermines her own concluseions.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/double_standard_TFPqqilUHif01I9BKkQSkN/1

ladies and gentlemen, the ny post:

Nets on Jay-Z track

As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment?

Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N------s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B----hes or Hoes. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way!

jesus

If they really wanted to be "Jay-Z hip" they would have a brilliantly-colored uniform co-designed by Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami

wow

you couldn't tell if they were "hollow-tip" from the shell casings. faker!

yeah

Phil Mushnick everyone

The Brooklyn B's would be a dope cheerleading squad; beyonce could lead
also, how quickly they forget:
http://www.motheringhut.com/images/art_fever.jpg

he's not a business man he's a contributing greatly to our local economy while offending the delicate conservative sensibilities of a shill working for a corrupt media company man

can we change the title of this thread to "let's congratulate ourselves for not being THAT white person" since that's what this thread has turned into

http://www.columbiacountyobserver.com/master_files/images/2009_County_News_images/09_0319_Fl_Crown.jpg

"And in other news, we've found more examples of racism on the Internet. You all want to hear about it?"

this is the 4th largest newspaper in the country!

Pretty sure the Observer is far down on the list.

suggesting that he might as well name the cheerleaders "Brooklyn Bitches" because that's HOW HE DO
i think it's a lil bit racist
it's primarily a lil bit stupid

NY Post is the worst newspaper in the world

I thought that distinction fell to Every British Paper Except the Guardian

can we change the title of this thread to "let's congratulate ourselves for not being THAT white person" since that's what this thread has turned into

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, May 4, 2012 12:42 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like how the thread title implies a naivety to posting the most racist things we can find - is this... racist? *hold up klan hood*

Yeah, kinda shitty. On the other hand, if net attention gets someone like that "The Talk" guy fired, I'm all for that.

I was not actually wondering whether or not that was racist maybe I should have searched for a ny post thread

within a day of starting up, this thead had become a place for both genuine "is this racist?" questioning and unambiguous examples of racist bullshit. there's nothing wrong with this, so far as i can see, and certainly no reason to get nasty about it.

is this racist^

i dunno, ask deej

dan wasn't being nasty

there's something at least a little sharp about "let's congratulate ourselves for not being THAT white person".

though, yeah, "nasty" was overstated. <3 dan, apologies for getting snippy in return.

Regurgitating this ignorance and hate on to a thread that was supposed to be more about videos made by the Black Keys isn't going to change anyone or get anyone fired or raise awareness of how the New York Post is an awful, vile publication.

well 'I guess I posted it in the wrong thread' I had no idea this one was secretly a signaling game about how not racist you were